Civilizations
Bookreader Item Preview
Share or Embed This Item
- Publication date
- 2000
- Topics
- Civilization, World history, Cultuur, Ecologische aspecten, Geografische aspecten, Geschiedenis (vorm)
- Publisher
- London : Macmillan
- Collection
- internetarchivebooks; printdisabled
- Contributor
- Internet Archive
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 1.2G
xx, 636 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
Civilizations is a radical cultural history of mankind's relationship with natue, which advances a new understanding of what it means to be civilised. Fernández-Armesto is the author of ten books, including Millennium, Truth and Columbus
Includes bibliographical references and index
The itch to civilize : civilizations and civilization -- pt. 1. The waste land : desert, tundra, ice -- The helm of ice : ice worlds and tundra as human habitats -- The death of earth : adaptation and counteradaptation in deserts of sand -- pt. 2. Leaves of grass : uncultivable grasslands -- The sweepings of the wind : prairie and grassy savanna -- The highway of civilizations : the Eurasian steppe -- pt. 3. Under the rain : civilization in tropical lowlands and postglacial forests -- The wild woods : postglacial and temperate woodland -- Hearts of darkness : tropical lowlands -- pt. 4. The shining fields of mud : alluvial soils in drying climates -- The lone and level sands : misleading cases in the Near East -- Of shoes and rice : transcending environments of origin in China and India -- pt. 5. The mirrors of sky : civilizing highlands -- The gardens of the clouds : highland civilizations of the new world -- The climb to paradise : highland civilizations of the old world -- pt. 6. The water margins : civilizations shaped by the sea -- The allotments of the gods : small-island civilizations -- The view from the shore : the nature of seaboard civilizations -- Chasing the monsoon : seaboard civilizations of maritime Asia -- The tradition of Ulysses : the Greek and Roman seaboards -- pt. 7. Breaking the waves : the domestication of the oceans -- Almost the last environment : the rise of oceanic civilizations -- Refloating Atlantis : the making of Atlantic civilization -- The Atlantic and after : Atlantic supremacy and the global outlook
Civilizations is a radical cultural history of mankind's relationship with natue, which advances a new understanding of what it means to be civilised. Fernández-Armesto is the author of ten books, including Millennium, Truth and Columbus
Includes bibliographical references and index
The itch to civilize : civilizations and civilization -- pt. 1. The waste land : desert, tundra, ice -- The helm of ice : ice worlds and tundra as human habitats -- The death of earth : adaptation and counteradaptation in deserts of sand -- pt. 2. Leaves of grass : uncultivable grasslands -- The sweepings of the wind : prairie and grassy savanna -- The highway of civilizations : the Eurasian steppe -- pt. 3. Under the rain : civilization in tropical lowlands and postglacial forests -- The wild woods : postglacial and temperate woodland -- Hearts of darkness : tropical lowlands -- pt. 4. The shining fields of mud : alluvial soils in drying climates -- The lone and level sands : misleading cases in the Near East -- Of shoes and rice : transcending environments of origin in China and India -- pt. 5. The mirrors of sky : civilizing highlands -- The gardens of the clouds : highland civilizations of the new world -- The climb to paradise : highland civilizations of the old world -- pt. 6. The water margins : civilizations shaped by the sea -- The allotments of the gods : small-island civilizations -- The view from the shore : the nature of seaboard civilizations -- Chasing the monsoon : seaboard civilizations of maritime Asia -- The tradition of Ulysses : the Greek and Roman seaboards -- pt. 7. Breaking the waves : the domestication of the oceans -- Almost the last environment : the rise of oceanic civilizations -- Refloating Atlantis : the making of Atlantic civilization -- The Atlantic and after : Atlantic supremacy and the global outlook
- Access-restricted-item
- true
- Addeddate
- 2020-10-09 08:01:18
- Boxid
- IA1961706
- Camera
- Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control)
- Collection_set
- printdisabled
- External-identifier
-
urn:oclc:record:1200283400
urn:lcp:civilizations0000fern:lcpdf:930de03d-6f37-4720-8e4a-db6071b6b83c
urn:lcp:civilizations0000fern:epub:d6858c37-f187-44b0-a1d8-942bde3a5340
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Grant_report
- Arcadia #4281
- Identifier
- civilizations0000fern
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t7xm7sb5c
- Invoice
- 2089
- Isbn
-
0333901711
9780333901717
- Ocr
- tesseract 4.1.1
- Ocr_detected_lang
- en
- Ocr_detected_lang_conf
- 1.0000
- Ocr_detected_script
- Latin
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.5
- Ocr_parameters
- -l eng
- Old_pallet
- IA19390
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL10557746M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL278935W
- Page_number_confidence
- 100
- Page_number_module_version
- 1.0.5
- Pages
- 686
- Pdf_module_version
- 0.0.19
- Ppi
- 300
- Rcs_key
- 24143
- Republisher_date
- 20201009070027
- Republisher_operator
- associate-wilfredo-saladores@archive.org
- Republisher_time
- 924
- Scandate
- 20201005215445
- Scanner
- station17.cebu.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- cebu
- Scribe3_search_catalog
- isbn
- Scribe3_search_id
- 0333901711
- Source
- removed
- Tts_version
- 4.0-initial-155-gbba175a5
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
comment
Reviews
There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to
.
274 Views
5 Favorites
Purchase options
DOWNLOAD OPTIONS
No suitable files to display here.
IN COLLECTIONS
Internet Archive BooksUploaded by station17.cebu on